Tracy Letts' August: Osage County leads the roundup of year-end "Top 10" and "Best of" lists in various New York publications. Other front-runners include Off-Broadway's Dividing the Estate and the City Center Encores! production of Gypsy, which is heading to Broadway in March.

Other shows to surface on a number of lists include Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry, David Harrower's Blackbird and St. Ann's Warehouse staging of the National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch.

Following is a list of 2007's top theatrical contenders (by publication):

The New York Time's Charles Isherwood: (in alphabetical order, non-Broadway only)August: Osage County (Steppenwolf Theater Company) City Center Encores! (Face the Music, Stairway to Paradise, Follies, Gypsy)Barbara Cook and the New York PhilharmonicDividing the EstateDying CityGone MissingIn The Heights and Passing Strange The Metropolitan OperaOhio State MurdersPeter and Jerry